The 'World We Want' Global Thematic Consultation on Water

As highlighted by the Rio+20 outcome document in June 2012, water is at the core of sustainable development because it is linked to a number of key global challenges. Indeed water is closely tied to food and energy security, human health and well-being, climate change, natural disasters and ecosystems integrity.

For all these reasons, water was identified as one of the 11 themes of the "global conversation" in the process towards shaping the post-2015 development agenda - including conflict and fragility, education, energy, environmental sustainability, food security, governance, growth and employment, health, inequalities, population dynamics, and water.

The Water Thematic Consultations were facilitated by UN-Water, co-led by UNDESA and UNICEF, and co-hosted by Jordan, Liberia, Mozambique, Netherlands and Switzerland. It included web-based discussions and face-to-face meetings. The purpose was to bring-in voices from a broad range of stakeholders and citizens to identify water-related priorities that need to be addressed in the future development agenda.

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